npm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring npm skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited npm over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 798 717
Rank change year-on-year +174 -81 -227
Permanent jobs citing npm 60 87 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.088% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.25% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51 69 171
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £48,500 £42,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% +1.50%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £140,677 £101,029 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

npm falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for npm in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing npm.

Salary trend for npm in the UK

npm
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing npm over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for npm in the UK

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Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +158 45 £82,500 +24.53% 28
Work from Home +183 42 £72,500 +11.54% 24
UK excluding London +183 40 £65,000 +23.81% 17
London +102 18 £82,500 -8.33% 13
South West +103 14 £108,705 +49.94% 5
Wales +43 10 £32,500 -38.10%
South East +113 4 £57,500 +27.78% 4
North of England +73 4 £57,500 +53.33% 3
Midlands +58 4 £70,000 -9.68% 2
Scotland +130 3 £85,253 -9.92% 2
West Midlands +47 3 £63,750 -17.74% 2
North West +29 3 £58,750 +18.99% 2
Yorkshire +63 1 £32,500 -5.80% 1
East of England +55 1 £70,000 +83.01% 1
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

npm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (21.67%) CMS
2 2 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Drupal
3 1 (1.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Sketch
1 1 (1.67%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) GitHub
3 14 (23.33%) GCP
4 13 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) Datadog
6 8 (13.33%) Yarn
7 7 (11.67%) Serverless
8 6 (10.00%) AWS
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.33%) Figma
10 2 (3.33%) SaaS
11 1 (1.67%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) MySQL
2 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.33%) Redis
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (75.00%) webpack
2 38 (63.33%) Git
3 14 (23.33%) Cypress.io
3 14 (23.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (21.67%) Cucumber
5 11 (18.33%) Babel
6 10 (16.67%) Grunt
7 6 (10.00%) TeamCity
8 5 (8.33%) Vite
9 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
9 4 (6.67%) JIRA
10 2 (3.33%) Ant
10 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.33%) ESLint
10 2 (3.33%) gulp
10 2 (3.33%) Mocha
10 2 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (3.33%) Sinon.JS
11 1 (1.67%) GitLab
11 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Front Office
4 3 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Agriculture
5 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Automotive
6 1 (1.67%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Lead
3 11 (18.33%) PHP Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) Java Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) Lead Java Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (11.67%) Senior
8 5 (8.33%) React Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.00%) HTML CSS Developer
10 3 (5.00%) HTML Developer
10 3 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
11 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
11 2 (3.33%) Senior C# Developer
11 2 (3.33%) Team Leader
11 2 (3.33%) UI Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (60.00%) React
2 26 (43.33%) HTML
2 26 (43.33%) RESTful
3 22 (36.67%) Jest
4 19 (31.67%) CSS
5 18 (30.00%) Web Services
6 16 (26.67%) Sass
7 14 (23.33%) Spring Boot
8 13 (21.67%) Node.js
8 13 (21.67%) Vue
9 10 (16.67%) CakePHP
9 10 (16.67%) Doctrine
9 10 (16.67%) Pyjs
9 10 (16.67%) Symfony
10 9 (15.00%) Redux
11 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
11 8 (13.33%) HTML5
12 7 (11.67%) GraphQL
13 6 (10.00%) .NET
13 6 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.67%) Legacy Code
3 9 (15.00%) Public Cloud
4 8 (13.33%) Distributed Applications
4 8 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.33%) IoT
7 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (63.33%) Agile
2 29 (48.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.00%) DevOps
4 20 (33.33%) Release Automation
5 19 (31.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (31.67%) Test Automation
6 18 (30.00%) Microservices
7 16 (26.67%) Micro Frontends
8 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 14 (23.33%) Event-Driven
10 13 (21.67%) API Design
10 13 (21.67%) Change Management
10 13 (21.67%) End-to-End Testing
10 13 (21.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (21.67%) Front End Development
10 13 (21.67%) OO
11 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
12 10 (16.67%) CRM
12 10 (16.67%) OO PHP
12 10 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) JavaScript
2 22 (36.67%) TypeScript
3 19 (31.67%) Java
4 13 (21.67%) PHP
5 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 10 (16.67%) Python
6 8 (13.33%) Bash
7 5 (8.33%) SQL
8 4 (6.67%) C#
9 1 (1.67%) Ada
9 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) Databricks
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian